Friday, June 30, 2023
APOS Administrator SAP Analysis for Office Use Case – Intralogistics
Using APOS Administrator to Manage and Schedule Analysis for Office Reports
One of the World’s largest providers of intralogistics goods and services such as material handling equipment, warehousing and material flow engineering services needed to automate scheduling of SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AO) monthly and weekly reports to hundreds of suppliers and thousands of internal technical staff. They wanted to replace their existing, internally developed, BEx Broadcaster-based publishing solution, which required continuous and labor-intensive maintenance.
Requirements
- Parameter Driven, Personalized Scheduling of SAP AO Reports
Simplify bulk management of the parameters used to personalize and schedule SAP Analysis for Office reports.
- Scheduling Personalized SAP AO Reports to Suppliers & Technical Staff
With nearly 500 supplier relationships to manage, and nearly 5,000 internal technical staff to keep informed, they needed to be able to schedule and send personalized, strategically timed SAP Analysis for Office reports.
- Managed Software Updates
Receive timely and reliable support and updates to the software solution, ensuring no downtime caused by updates to SAP solutions.
Solution – APOS Administrator
The customer selected APOS Administrator’s InfoScheduler module to meet their scheduling needs, providing:
- Simplified Scheduling
They simplified many complexities in their report scheduling with the easy-to-use, Excel-based interface of APOS Administrator’s InfoScheduler module.
- Agile Scheduling
APOS Administrator enables quick and easy management of multiple data dependencies, giving them agility in their report scheduling.
- Bulk Scheduling
They use APOS InfoScheduler to manage a large number of report schedules using a wide range of parameters.
Conclusion
“APOS InfoScheduler allowed this customer to simplify their SAP Analysis for Office report scheduling tasks and react with greater agility to new scheduling needs. Management of their large volume of schedules would be overwhelming without the powerful schedule controls that APOS provides. They use it to send thousands of reports per month, completely replacing their BEx Broadcaster-based publishing.”
Cathy Ramsli, APOS Account Manager